page_title: TVNZ 1
section_title: 1975–1980: TV ONE
hierarchical_section_title: TVNZ 1 / History / 1975–1980: TV ONE
caption_attribution_description: English: The Avalon television studios in Lower Hutt, New Zealand.
context_page_description: TVNZ 1 is the first national television channel owned and operated by the state-owned broadcaster Television New Zealand. It was the first major television broadcaster in New Zealand, starting out from 1960 onwards as independent government operated facilities in the four main centres of Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin, and eventually began sharing programming between them all in real time in 1969, becoming NZBC TV. The collective group was renamed Television One in 1975 upon the break-up of the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation, and became a part of TVNZ in 1980 when Television One and South Pacific Television merged. The channel assumed its current name in October 2016.
  TVNZ 1 is both a public broadcaster and a commercial broadcaster. Central to TVNZ 1 is news and current affairs, which is produced under the banner 1 News. Also, it broadcasts sports programming under the banner 1 Sport. Other programming consists of mainly drama, general entertainment and documentaries, both locally and internationally produced.
context_section_description: On 1 April 1975, the NZBC was split into 3 separate state owned corporations: Television One, Television Two and Radio New Zealand.
  The existing NZBC television service became TV One, and was based in Avalon Television Centre in Lower Hutt which opened that day. TV One used the WNTV1 and DNTV2 studios and the existing channel frequencies, while AKTV2's Shortland Street studios and CHTV3 studios and new channel frequencies were used for the new TV2, which commenced later that year.
caption: The Avalon Television Centre, home to TV One from 1975. Operations gradually moved to Auckland during the 1980s.
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